Death on the Nile : disease and the demography of Roman Egypt /

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient cens...

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Main Author: Scheidel, Walter, 1966-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 228.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Diseases > Egypt > History.

Demography > Egypt > History.

Medicine, Ancient.

Demography.